Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107986 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/151
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among households in Togo according to the characteristics of household heads. The study is based on the most recent survey (QUIBB 2006) and the monetary well-being indicator used is total real annual expenditure per adult equivalent. With regard to the decomposition of the Gini index through Shapley's approach, within-group inequality is greater than between-group inequality. These findings witness that in Togo, policy actions to reduce inequalities should first target the within-group expenditure disparities without neglecting the between-strata effects.
Subjects: 
decomposition
Gini coefficient
inequality
Shapley's value
Togo
JEL: 
D63
I31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-872-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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